Alexis Ohanian Slams ‘Idiots’ Over Serena Williams Bleaching

The entrepreneur defended his spouse’s seems to be and slammed the critics for not understanding how lighting works in footage. 

Williams herself additionally spoke out over the bleaching allegations and outrightly denied doing something to change the colour of her pores and skin. 

The drama unfolded after Williams took to X to share heartwarming photographs of her household at her sister, Venus Williams’ marriage ceremony.

Within the photographs, the tennis legend was captured wearing a classy white quantity as she crouched subsequent to her husband and two kids. Two-year-old Adira and eight-year-old Olympia additionally made the lower, wearing matching mild blue clothes. 

Williams wrote within the caption, “Pleasure doesn’t all the time roar, typically it whispers. [It’s] vital to savor these candy moments… I really like this image, so I needed to share it with you.”

When customers within the remark part started to accuse the tennis legend of bleaching her pores and skin, Ohanian quoted the image with the comment, “The place are all of the feedback from idiots who don’t perceive how pictures lighting works.”

A critic replied to his tweet, writing, “Alexis desires Black individuals to imagine we don’t know what pictures lighting seems to be like vs blatant pores and skin lightening.”

Nonetheless, he clapped again, writing, “Or: photographs from the identical occasion can look totally different based mostly on lighting.”

This isn’t the primary time the Golden Slam winner has been accused of bleaching her pores and skin. In early December 2025, Williams overtly addressed the bleaching allegations, making it clear that she has completed nothing to alter the colour of her pores and skin. 

Based on PEOPLE Magazine, the 44-year-old athlete was within the technique of recording a make-up tutorial for her model, Wyn Magnificence, when she introduced the subject up. 

“After which I put simply that impartial coloration, that’s really my pores and skin coloration, and no, for you haters on the market, I don’t bleach my pores and skin… There’s a factor known as daylight, and in that daylight, you get totally different colours,” she stated as she utilized her make-up. 

Williams made it clear that she is pleased with her pores and skin coloration, the way in which it’s, and known as the bleaching allegations “ridiculous.”

She added, “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, she bleached her pores and skin.’ I’m a darkish, Black girl, and I really like who I’m, and I really like how I look.” 

Williams additionally made it clear that whereas she holds no judgment towards individuals who determine to bleach their pores and skin, bleaching is simply not her factor. 

Whereas Williams firmly denied the bleaching rumors, she has all the time been open in regards to the work she has completed on her physique. 

In June, she revealed that she underwent a radio frequency therapy in Paris to tighten her abdomen. She shared a video of herself mendacity on a desk whereas the system was getting used on her.

Within the caption, she revealed that she has all the time been “self-conscious” of her tummy and determined to do one thing about it as quickly as she bought time away from the youngsters and from work.

Bleaching isn’t the one factor Williams has needed to deal with lately. She additionally needed to clear the air about whether or not or not she was pausing her retirement to return to tennis. 

Based on The Blast, final month she took to X to close down the claims, writing, “Omg y’all I am NOT coming again. This wildfire is loopy.”